I NOTE with interest that Wales is to become the first country in the UK to ban under eighteens from getting intimate body piercings, while at the same time campaigning to give the vote to sixteen year olds, seems strange to me that men / women are not being given the right to mutilate themselves, while children are deemed mature enough to do like wise with their country.

In a 2014 survey of 2,675 people, 76% thought that tattoos and/or piercings had hurt their chances of getting a job, and 39% thought employees with tattoos and / or body piercings reflect poorly on their employers.

These types of claims have become more extreme over the years as courts have even reviewed the religious assertions of plaintiffs claiming that body piercings and tattoos are part of their religious beliefs in the Church of Body Modification," Kittaka writes.

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